{"title":"An Examination of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Pilots’ Interaction with Air Traffic Control while Responding to Detect and Avoid Conflicts","authors":"L. Fern, R. Rorie","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.23.2-3.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.23.2-3.113","url":null,"abstract":"New performance standards for a detect and avoid (DAA) system are being developed to support the broader integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). One subset of these performance standards will address the minimum DAA display requirements to support pilot performance on maintaining well clear of other aircraft. These performance standards must take into account the current air traffic control (ATC) operational environment. In particular, the DAA system, and pilots’ interactions with that system, must account for the requirement for pilots to request a clearance for deviations from their approved instrument flight rules route. A series of human-in-the-loop (HITL) experiments were conducted to help identify the minimum information requirements for DAA displays. As part of these experiments, several pilot-ATC interaction metrics were collected, such as the amount of time it took pilots to request an ATC clearance prior to executing a maneuver to maintain well cle...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127136544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision Modeling Framework to Minimize Arrival Delays from Ground Delay Programs","authors":"N. Mohleji","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.307","url":null,"abstract":"Convective weather and other constraints create uncertainty in air transportation, leading to costly delays. A Ground Delay Program (GDP) is a strategy to mitigate these effects. Systematic decision support can increase GDP efficacy, reduce delays, and minimize direct operating costs. In this study we construct a decision analysis (DA) model combining a decision tree and Bayesian belief network. Through a case study of LaGuardia Airport, the DA model demonstrates that larger GDP scopes including more flights in the program, hourly rates between 30-34 operations, and lead times greater than two hours trigger the fewest delays, a savings monetized up to $1,850 per flight. Furthermore, when convective weather is predicted, forecast weather confidences and scheduled traffic remain the same level or greater nearly 70% of the time, supporting more strategic decision making. Thus, the DA model enables quantification of uncertainties and insights on causal relationships, providing support for future GDP decisions.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123828646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projecting the Effects of Air Carrier Fleet Plans on Future National Airspace System Operations","authors":"M. Bolanos, A. Meilus, D. Murphy","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.277","url":null,"abstract":"The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Performance and Operations Analysis developed a five-year operational outlook for the National Airspace System (NAS) to help better anticipate air tr...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114922621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface Performance of End-Around Taxiways","authors":"Nicoletta Fala, T. Le, Karen B. Marais, P. Uday","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.4.327","url":null,"abstract":"Optimizing usage of end-around taxiways is a near-term operational change to reduce aviation emissions and increase efficiency at airports. An end-around taxiway is a path for an aircraft to taxi a...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117045826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Cao, Li Jin, N. V. Nguyen, S. Landry, Dengfeng Sun, J. Post
{"title":"Evaluation of Fuel Benefits Depending on Continuous Descent Approach Procedures","authors":"Yi Cao, Li Jin, N. V. Nguyen, S. Landry, Dengfeng Sun, J. Post","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.251","url":null,"abstract":"In this work arrival traffic following a continuous descent approach profile into the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was simulated based on actual recorded traffic data. The fuel burn for the simulated traffic was estimated using the Base of Aircraft Data (BADA) Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption model and compared to a baseline simulation of the as-flown trajectories, where the continuous descent approach profile was not followed. Several sources of variability that impact the fuel savings were examined, including separation minima, types of maneuver to absorb the delays, and composition of aircraft weight category in the fleet mix. The results indicate that fuel savings depended on a number of factors, including aircraft weight, number of step-downs, and the type of air traffic control maneuver used to impart delay to the aircraft. These effects are estimated using simulation.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121254240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Jung, Ty Hoang, M. Hayashi, Waqar A. Malik, L. Tobias, Gautam Gupta
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of SARDA: An Individual Aircraft-Based Advisory Concept for Surface Management","authors":"Y. Jung, Ty Hoang, M. Hayashi, Waqar A. Malik, L. Tobias, Gautam Gupta","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.195","url":null,"abstract":"Surface operations at airports in the US are based on tactical operations, where departure aircraft primarily queue up and wait at the departure runways. NASA's Spot And Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA) tool was developed to address these inefficiencies through Air Traffic Control Tower advisories. The SARDA system is being updated to include collaborative gate hold, either tactically or strategically. This paper presents the results of the human-in-the-loop evaluation of the tactical gate hold version of SARDA in a 360 simulated tower setting. The simulations were conducted for the east side of the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. The new system provides gate hold, Ground Controller and Local Controller advisories based on a single scheduler. Simulations were conducted with SARDA on and off, the off case reflecting current day operations with no gate hold. Scenarios based on medium (1.2x current levels) and heavy (1.5x current levels) traffic were explored. Data collected from the simulation were analyzed for runway usage, delay for departures and arrivals, and fuel consumption. Further, Traffic Management Initiatives were introduced for a subset of the aircraft. Results indicated that runway usage did not change with the use of SARDA, i.e., there was no loss in runway throughput as compared to baseline. Taxiing delay was significantly reduced with the use of advisory by 45% in medium scenarios and 60% in heavy. Observed gate-holds were less than 15 minutes in all but one scenario, and even in this scenario 95% of the aircraft had a gate hold of less than 15 minutes. Arrival delay was unaffected by the use of advisory. Total fuel consumption was also reduced by 23% in medium traffic and 33% in heavy. TMI compliance appeared unaffected by the advisory.","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"33 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116714546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ground delays from lightning ramp closures and decision uncertainties","authors":"M. Steiner, W. Deierling, K. Ikeda, R. Bass","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.3.223","url":null,"abstract":"Analyses are presented that provide a first quantitative look at the impacts of lightning-related ramp closures on departing and arriving air traffic. Ramp closures are a necessity to ensure the safety of outdoor personnel servicing gate-side aircraft. Halting outdoor work delays air traffic and may cause ripple effects beyond the impacted airport. Today’s ramp closure decision-making process is burdened with uncertainty related to the procedures and their implementation, and the lightning data used to trigger ramp closures. This uncertainty needs to be accounted for, as it has implications for ensuring personnel safety and minimizing avoidable operational inefficiencies. Our initial results highlight the fact that lightning ramp closures can exert substantial impacts on air traffic. Moreover, the choice of safety procedure and varied sources of lightning information yield large uncertainty that renders operators unsure as to whether or not their approach is safe and effective. Additional research will he...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116547085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will Controllers Accept a Machine That Thinks like They Think? The Role of Strategic Conformance in Decision Aiding Automation","authors":"B. Hilburn, C. Westin, C. Borst","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.115","url":null,"abstract":"In a series of real time trials, we simulated sophisticated air traffic management conflict resolution automation using unrecognizable replays of controllers’ own performance. Using a fairly novel experimental design and a prototype air traffic control interface, we explored with operational controllers the interactive effects of traffic complexity, level of automation, and “strategic conformance” (defined as the match between human and machine solution strategy) on a number of dependent measures. Conformal advisories (exact replays of a given controller’s previous solution) were accepted more often, rated higher, and responded to faster than were non-conformal advisories (replays of a colleague’s different solution). In the end, one result stood out in particular: roughly 24% of conformal advisories were rejected by controllers. How could it be that controllers, in effect, disagreed with their very own solutions roughly one quarter of the time? The project is currently exploring this and other related is...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126999586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of Air Traffic Controller Utterance Transcripts via Warm-Start Non-Negative Matrix Factorization","authors":"M. Enríquez","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.137","url":null,"abstract":"Air traffic control voice (i.e., utterance) transcript data are often underutilized in the context of airspace analysis, despite its increasing availability. This underuse provides an opportunity for enhanced analysis, as utterances contain operational directives which are typically inferred from aircraft trajectories. Direct knowledge of such directives would facilitate various activities such as Area Navigation (RNAV) procedure assessment, airspace redesign, or controller workload studies. Though transcribed utterances can be free-form, they fit into a finite number of categories. To this end, we propose using domain knowledge to create an effective warm-start strategy for the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), which in turn can be used to categorize utterance transcripts automatically. Using human and machine transcribed voice data, we show that our approach closely matches manually labeled (i.e., by subject matter experts) utterances. Furthermore, we associate labeled utterances to their corresp...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123325754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SO6C: Compressed Trajectories in Air Traffic Management","authors":"S. Wandelt, Xiaoqian Sun, V. Gollnick","doi":"10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/ATCQ.22.2.157","url":null,"abstract":"Air traffic management is facing a tremendous increase in the amount of available flight data. Parallel to the decreasing time and cost necessary to produce ATM data, computational requirements for...","PeriodicalId":221205,"journal":{"name":"Air traffic control quarterly","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121972033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}